Otto GmbH & Co KG Company Description
Otto GmbH & Co KG has the mail-order business in the bag. The world's largest mail-order group sells merchandise in about 20 countries in Europe, North America, and Asia through more than 600 print catalogs, the Internet, and some 800 OTTO shops. The firm sells products from clothing to appliances to sporting goods. Otto also owns a majority stake in the Crate & Barrel housewares chain. Its Otto Freizeit und Touristik Group (OFT) comprises all of the group's tourism companies. The family of executive board chairman Michael Otto owns the majority of the company; in 2005 it sold off its longstanding controlling interest in US catalog company Spiegel (now Eddie Bauer Holdings).
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